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| author | bwarsaw | 2000-11-14 05:46:26 +0000 |
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| committer | bwarsaw | 2000-11-14 05:46:26 +0000 |
| commit | bc61acb2306d404fbd0fdcee8e146ce40e8daedd (patch) | |
| tree | 720a2759ef4631f02109a3dc3dfe6f6124f7f5a6 /admin/www/download.html | |
| parent | 7a691b0aefe4452585971e12fa545b46afa37205 (diff) | |
| download | mailman-bc61acb2306d404fbd0fdcee8e146ce40e8daedd.tar.gz mailman-bc61acb2306d404fbd0fdcee8e146ce40e8daedd.tar.zst mailman-bc61acb2306d404fbd0fdcee8e146ce40e8daedd.zip | |
Bunch of updates
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diff --git a/admin/www/download.html b/admin/www/download.html index 796dc9e06..9c9079251 100644 --- a/admin/www/download.html +++ b/admin/www/download.html @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ <HTML> <!-- THIS PAGE IS AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED. DO NOT EDIT. --> -<!-- Fri Nov 10 22:54:22 2000 --> +<!-- Tue Nov 14 00:44:20 2000 --> <!-- USING HT2HTML 1.1 --> <!-- SEE http://www.wooz.org/barry/software/pyware.html --> <!-- User-specified headers: @@ -188,8 +188,11 @@ Free Software Foundation, Inc. <h3>Requirements</h3> <p>Mailman currently runs only on Unix-y systems, such as Linux, -Solaris, *BSD, etc. It does not run on Windows or MacOS (but does -work on MacOSX). +Solaris, *BSD, etc. It should work on MacOSX but not earlier versions +of MacOS. It probably does not work on Windows, although it's +possible you could get it running on a Cygwin system (please +<a href="mailto:mailman-developers@python.org">let the developer +community know</a> if you have success with this!) <p> Before you can run Mailman, you need to make sure that @@ -199,6 +202,7 @@ and Python 2.0. Most Linux systems come with Python pre-installed, so you just need to make sure you're running an up-to-date version. You can do this by executing the following at your shell's command line: +<blockquote> <pre> % python Python 2.0 (#128, Oct 18 2000, 04:48:44) @@ -206,6 +210,7 @@ Python 2.0 (#128, Oct 18 2000, 04:48:44) Type "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> ^D </pre> +</blockquote> <p>You will also need an SMTP server (a.k.a. mail transport agent or <em>MTA</em>) for mail delivery and reception. @@ -243,6 +248,29 @@ is the current GNU release. It is available from the following mirror sites: <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=103">From SourceForge</a> </ul> +<em>If you're using a command line FTP client, be sure to set the mode +to binary</em>. Once you've downloaded the source tarball, you can +unpack it with the following commands: + +<blockquote> +<pre> +% cd /usr/local/src +% tar zxf mailman.tar.gz +</pre> +</blockquote> + +Mailman's tarball unpacks into a directory called +<code>mailman-xyz</code> where <em>xyz</em> is the version number. +Note also that some versions of <code>tar</code> don't accept the +<em>z</em> option. In that case, you'll need to use the +<code>gunzip</code> program like so: + +<blockquote> +<pre> +% gunzip -c mailman.tar.gz | tar xf - +</pre> +</blockquote> + </TD><!-- end of body cell --> </TR><!-- end of sidebar/body row --> </TABLE><!-- end of page table --> |